2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .250   State aid for promotion of purebred cattle industry.

246.250 State aid for promotion of purebred cattle industry. (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a)  "Department" means the Department of Agriculture; (b)  "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture; (c)  "Purebred" means registered by the appropriate association, organization or authority; and (d)  Neither "show" nor "exhibition" nor "show, exhibition, and sale" shall include those held as a part of or in connection with any county or other local fair. (2) The department shall aid, encourage, foster, and promote the development and the improvement of the purebred cattle industry in Kentucky. To that end, the department shall promote, aid, and assist in the promotion of annual shows and sales of purebred cattle in Kentucky with the object and purpose of establishing Kentucky as one (1) of the greatest centers in the United States for the breeding, producing, raising, exhibition, showing, and sale of purebred cattle. The General Assembly shall make appropriations from the general expenditure fund for each fiscal year to effectuate that purpose. (3) From the appropriations made pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, six thousand dollars ($6,000) shall be used and applied in each fiscal year in each of the following events: Not less than four thousand dollars ($4,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall be used and applied to the payment of premiums for the largest purebred Aberdeen-Angus, purebred Hereford, purebred Shorthorn, purebred Polled Hereford, purebred Charolais, purebred Jersey, purebred Holstein- Friesian, purebred Guernsey, purebred Ayrshire, purebred Simmental, purebred Chianina, purebred Maine Anjou, Murray Grey, purebred Brown Swiss, purebred Limousin, purebred Santa Gertrudis, purebred Beefalo, purebred Red Poll, purebred Brahman, purebred Brangus, and purebred Salers show and sale which may be held in Kentucky in each fiscal year which is open on equal terms and conditions to all breeders in the United States who are eligible to enter any of the above shows and sales. The remainder shall be used and applied by the Commissioner for appropriate advertising of the shows and sales in such livestock journals and other advertising media as the Commissioner may determine. (4) Any show, exhibition, and sale of purebred cattle to be eligible to receive the appropriations must provide that the qualifications for entries in any class are equal to the qualifications for entries in all other classes receiving appropriations and that entries in all classes are open upon equal terms to the breeders of such cattle in all the states of the United States, and the Dominion of Canada may be included. The Commissioner shall determine, with respect to each of the breeds of cattle, which show, exhibition, and sale is the largest to be held in Kentucky in each year and, in making that determination, he may consider shows, exhibitions, and sales which have been held in Kentucky in any previous year and in any previous two (2) year period. (5) The remainder of the appropriations made pursuant to subsection (2) of this section for each fiscal year shall be used and applied by the department as follows: At least five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall be used to add premium money otherwise available for shows and exhibitions of purebred dairy cattle to be held in Kentucky at the places the Commissioner determines; and the remaining balance shall be used and applied by the department in advertising and in promoting the purebred dairy cattle shows and exhibitions in such livestock journals and other advertising media as the Commissioner may determine. (6) No show or exhibition and no show, exhibition, and sale of any purebred cattle shall qualify for or be eligible to receive any part of an appropriation made under this section, unless and until there is provided and made available from other sources an amount for premiums equal to, or in excess of, the respective appropriations made available pursuant to this section for the show or exhibition or show, exhibition, and sale, or unless there is provided and made available from some other source an amount for premiums equal to, or in excess of, the amount which the Commissioner may allocate to or for the show or exhibition or show, exhibition, and sale under the authority vested in him by this section. Effective: July 13, 1990 History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 387, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 378, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978; and ch. 247, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 216, sec. 1. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 91, sec. 1. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 242, sec. 1. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 1. -- Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 109, secs. 1 to 5.